Awards & Winners

Eric Sykes

Date of Birth 04-May-1923
Place of Birth Oldham
(United Kingdom, Lancashire, England)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Eric Sykes CBE
Profession Screenwriter, Actor, Film Director
Eric Sykes CBE was an English radio, television and film writer, actor and director whose performing career spanned more than 50 years. He frequently wrote for and/or performed with many other leading comedy performers and writers of the period, including Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, John Antrobus and Johnny Speight. Sykes first came to prominence through his many radio credits as a writer and actor in the 1950s, most notably through his collaboration on The Goon Show scripts. He became a TV star in his own right in the early 1960s when he appeared with Hattie Jacques in several popular BBC comedy television series.

Awards by Eric Sykes

Check all the awards nominated and won by Eric Sykes.

1962


British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance

Nominations 1962 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance